For my annual update to my Optihumanist Principles, I made changes to a couple of the sections. In the "Life is limitless" section where I wrote "We welcome the propagation of life throughout the Universe", I changed "life" to "sapient life". Initially I had wanted to change it to "sentient life" -- but then I learned the difference.
My "Optimism is effort" section is now "Progress is perpetual". I wanted to retain the idea that effort is required to make things better over time while incorporating my thoughts from my previous blog entry Evolution as Purpose, including Perry's concept of the "divine attractor". Here is the new final section as updated for 2025:
Progress is perpetual. We hold that the purpose of evolved life is to evolve. We embrace continuous improvement as a path toward divinity. We applaud incremental growth.
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